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2. Those who like funny videos, and those who were discussing Revkin the other day, should check out the video "NASA hangout on sea level and global warming" at Dot Earth at the moment. I've only watched the first 15 minutes but so far it's a parade of "NASA scientists" using suggestive, alarmist phrases, then admitting that they don't actually know what's going to happen. Revkin does not miss this and looks increasingly skeptical: "You were saying all this back in 1988. Doesn't science advance?"

Shortly before I stopped watching, they present a graph supposedly showing sea level rise accelerating, but it's from a North Carolina salt marsh. I remember reading a few things on WUWT about sea level rise in North Carolina, for example:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/29/cooling-that-east-coast-sea-level-hotspot/Has Revkin had the wool pulled over his eyes again?

When achieved, low-carbon growth will be more energy-efficient, more energy secure, more community based and inclusive, safer, quieter, cleaner and more bio-diverse.

but for some reason, this wonderful world won't just happen...

Expenditure involved in making the transition to a low-carbon economy should be analysed as an investment, rather than only a net cost (many co-benefits outside climate change). Most is not a direct cost to the public purse, largely private

and

Good policy [is] needed to drive this industrial revolution – different from past revolutions

In a comment, he said that BH commenters had sent him insulting/embarrassing emails. Despite requests to reveal these emails, nothing was forthcoming. I made an FOISA request for the emails and the University of St Andrews refused my request. I asked for the decision to be reviewed but again they refused my request for the emails.

I appealed to the Scottish Information Commissioner and, on 14 March 2013, she ruled that the University had failed to comply with my request under both FOSIA and EIR's.

Unless they appeal on a point of law, they must reveal the insulting/embarrassing emails by 30 April 2013.